Example sentences of "in [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 2 | In much the way that field names can reveal traces of past languages and past land usage , and street names past social values , events , local features and benefactors , so can surnames — if carefully analysed — demonstrate racial and local origins , relationships , occupations , personal attributes and even ancient street cries . |
| 3 | It should also be noted that , in much the way that the period 25 December to 1 January is nowadays increasingly a ‘ holiday ’ but without religious content , so in medieval times the octave was an important festival and sometimes Christmas and Historical reckoning became uncertain in the dating of documents . |
| 4 | The English response to the pressure of war was to attempt to unify the system of government in much the way that Charles and James had tried . |
| 5 | In much the way that curriculum development and in-service education relinquished their dependence on centralised projects and courses and came to be focused on the particular contexts of schools , so also the preoccupation of project evaluation with theoretical models and procedures gave way to a practical need to solve concrete problems of educational practice in schools . |
| 6 | The eastern travels of Herodotus , who moved freely across the two thousand miles separating Babylon from Cyrene , were made possible by Persian indulgence and protection , in much the way that the evangelism of St Paul was facilitated by the Roman Peace . |
| 7 | ’ Sheila said this in much the tone of incredulity as she might have said , ‘ If I ever die . ’ |
| 8 | One particular advantage of models such as these is that they can be used to produce multipliers which show the effects of changes in eg the population of a region on the employment levels in that region . |
| 9 | have a capital programme in obviously the sense that it would be difficult to get that suggest . |
| 10 | The higher shelves held plastic containers of the sort a do-it-yourself handiman would keep screws and nails in so the effect was of a dozen or so pigeonholes . |
| 11 | In short , you have your own luxurious retreat situated in perhaps the world 's most exclusive location for a commendably affordable price . |
| 12 | As there is already a stop in approximately the location you describe I regret that I am still unclear as to what your request comprises . |
| 13 | I get up on my skates and dance to my left , in exactly the style I learned from him 25 years before . |
| 14 | This method has to be handled with a great deal of care since the danger is that it will result in exactly the kind of antagonism which the salesperson is wishing to avoid . |
| 15 | Swearing and taboo language , for instance , are strongly linked to both class and gender in exactly the way you would predict . |
| 16 | He had brought a boy called Jay to meet her , in exactly the way Arthur had taken her to meet his mother all those years ago . |
| 17 | The first thing to note is that a chase should be built up in exactly the way you built up the whole of your book . |
| 18 | The use of econometrics as a regular part of the marketing function is growing fast and in exactly the way described above , that is , using it to measure the return on investment . |
| 19 | Unknowingly the big Doberman had reacted in exactly the way his devious human opponent had wanted . |
| 20 | He was tied to her and to Mr Malik in exactly the way he was tied to his own parents . |
| 21 | Walter Ruttmann 's film from the apogee of German Expressionist cinema uses the cinema in exactly the way a poet uses language to give a dynamic , reverberant and meaningful portrait of one of the world 's great cities and its people . |
| 22 | In horsy terms , that means that if you do n't ask for canter in exactly the way he 's been taught , he just carries on trotting round wondering what you meant . |
| 23 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 24 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 25 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 26 | If the kerfuffle is well publicised ( which this one was ) , its effect is much stronger — especially as the onlooking equity markets are now in just the mood to go for gold . |
| 27 | He can do so in just the way that he believes the totality of appearances can be interpreted without belief in ‘ substances ’ , or that there is no further significance to existence than that it is not a predicate . |
| 28 | When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain , turning it into a vehicle for the meme 's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell . |
| 29 | There is a set of genes involved in patterning the embryo , the homeobox genes ( Chapter 7 ) , which are expressed in the developing limb buds in just the Way that would suggest that they may encode positional information . |
| 30 | As generations followed the pattern of the maze , the earth energies may have illumined their forms in just the way that they may have done with the cup-and-ring marks and the pilgrims ' tracks . |